High School Project

Tina Griego

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EXPERIENCE

City Columnist, Denver Post, 2001 to 2002; 2009 to 2012

Three-times-weekly column focused on Denver's overlooked people and places.

Coverage included a national award-winning series on the state's poorest

neighborhood.

City columnist, Rocky Mountain News, 2002 to 2009

Coverage included two year-long projects, one on the Latino high school

dropout rate, the second on how immigration, legal and illegal, changed one

Denver block.

Project reporter, Rocky Mountain News, 1998 to 2000

Long-form narrative projects included a series on life in a suburban high

school a year after the Columbine High School shootings.

Project reporter, Albuquerque Tribune, 1994 to 1998

Projects included national-award winning series on the legislative battle to

expand Indian gaming in New Mexico.

Reporter, Los Angeles Times, 1988 to 1994

Covered communities south of Los Angeles, including Long Beach and

Compton. Contributed to the paper's Pulitzer-Prize winning second-day

coverage of the Los Angeles riots with a story on the mayhem in Compton.

EDUCATION

Omachi-kita ko, Omachi, Nagano-ken, Japan

New Mexico State University, B.A. Journalism

AWARDS

Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, 2011

Emmy, Heartland chapter, 2011

Best general news column, Colorado chapter SPJ, 2011

Best general news column, Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters,

2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2005

Best of the West, feature writing, short form, 2009

Best column, Colorado Press Association, 2009, 2006, 2001

Best sustained coverage, Colorado Press Association, 2007, 2005

Best of Show, Colorado Press Association, 2007

First place "A Reader," Colorado chapter SPJ 2008

Frank del Olmo "Print Journalist of the Year," National Association of Hispanic

Journalists 2006

Second place, general interest column, National Association of Newspaper

Columnists, 2007, 2005

Hall of Fame, "Commentary," Scripps Howard, 2004

"Best of Colorado," Colorado chapter SPJ, 2001

Morton Margolin prize "Distinguished Business Reporting," University of

Denver School of Communications and College of Business, 2000

Best Education Reporting, Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters

National Headliner Award, "Outstanding News Series," 1998

COMMUNITY RECOGNITION

Best columnist, Editor's Choice, 5280 magazine, 2001, 2007

"You Make Us Proud," award, Mi Casa Resource Center for Women, 2003

"Heavy Lifting Award," Mayor's Of ce for Education and Children, 2006

"In Service of Community" award, St. Cajetan's Catholic Church, 2006

Champion of Change, Padres y Jovenes Unidos, 2010

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